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dissolution

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "separation into parts," also "frivolity, moral laxness, dissolute living," from Old French dissolution (12c.) and directly from Latin dissolutionem (nominative dissolutio ) "a dissolving, destroying, interruption, dissolution," noun of action ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dissolution or Dissolve may refer to: Dissolution (law) , in law, means to end a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, or corporation, or unions. Dissolution (chemistry) , or solvation , in chemistry, the process of dissolving a solute ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissolution \Dis`so*lu"tion\, n. [OE. dissolucioun dissoluteness, F. dissolution, fr. L. dissolutio, fr. dissolvere. See Dissolve .] The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. --Shak. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB follow ▪ The announcement was followed by the dissolution of the House of Representatives on Feb. 17. ▪ Converted to an Elizabethan great house following the dissolution of the Monasteries, the abbey has a peaceful atmosphere. ...

Usage examples of dissolution.

Adams had written in his percipient letter to Nathan Webb, and to Adams now, as to others, dissolution remained the greatest single threat to the American experiment.

After the dissolution of the monasteries it was proposed to form a new diocese to include Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, but the project was abandoned, and both remained in the Lincoln diocese until 1837, when the latter was transferred to Oxford.

Think of Edward of Caernarvon, the first Prince of Wales, a perverse life, Pennyfeather, and an unseemly death, then the Tudors and the dissolution of the Church, then Lloyd George, the temperance movement, Noncomformity, and lust stalking hand in hand through the country, wasting and ravaging.

This is not the dissolution of the Cartesian ego, but its hyperinflation to cosmic proportions: a temporary transfusion of higher domains has empowered a monster.

To Cathartes there was something contemptible about how close he was to dissolution.

Canadians than it was to the Londoners, and his Churchillian refrain, that he had not become Governor of the HBC in order to preside over its dissolution, was a brave stance but hardly a policy.

At the dissolution of the monasteries the diocese of Bristol was founded, which included the counties of Bristol and Dorset.

So that with bone subjected to artificial gastric juice complete decalcification precedes the dissolution of the fibrous basis.

But it may be added, that should our own citizens, more enterprizing than wise, become desirous of settling this country, and emigrate thither, it must not only be attended with all the injuries of a too widely dispersed population, but, by adding to the great weight of the western part of our territory, must hasten the dismemberment of a large portion of our country, or a dissolution of the government.

This, according to Lord Grimthorpe, had apparently been done with the intention of demolishing the tower, probably soon after the time of the dissolution of the monastery, for the hole contained timber shores which were sufficient to support the tower while the workmen were enlarging the hole, but which were probably intended to be set on fire and burnt away, thus allowing the workmen to escape before the tower fell.

The word described the inevitable dissolution of agility and grace that happened to Hypers who lived too long away from the starships.

Emptiness, and not through a regressive dissolution of dialogical intersubjectivity into atomistic monological states and reductionistic mindless cognitive mechanism, the path the authors all too often stray into.

Tantra believes that after Maha Pralaya, the great dissolution, the new creation builds itself upon the Sanskaras-impressions and moulds of the past.

Lord Wharncliffe had scarcely risen to move for an address to his majesty against the dissolution, when the Duke of Richmond rose to complain that all the peers were not sitting in their proper places, as usual on such occasions.

I begin my letter just after the dissolution of the Comintern, and before the full effects of this have become clear.